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Contents Preface ................................................................................. vii Acknowledgments ................................................................ xi INTRODUCTION ReturningtoOntology ................................................ 1 The Contemporary Space of First Philosophy ...... 1 Beyond the Unifying Ground: Heidegger’s Legacy 9 Part 1. ConfliCting Pluralities: Between HermeneutiCs and matHematiCs ONE • MathematicsandBeyond:Event,Axiom,andSubject ............ 29 The Axiomatic Decision ...................................... 30 Badiou’s Ontology in Discussion with Hermeneutics ................................................. 34 Subjectivity in Light of Mathematics ................... 62 TWO • HermeneuticsandBeyond: PartageandAbandonment ......... 69 The Structure of Signification: Metaphysical Remnants in Classical Hermeneutics ................ 74 From Belonging to Abandonment: Being-Toward in Nancy’s Plato ....................... 78 Koinon without Hen: On Hermeneutics as Partage ....................................................... 83 Koinon without Hen: Nancy’s Ontology of Plurality .......................................................... 92 THREE • BeyondPresupposition:PlatoandAgamben ...................... 101 Two Platos: Mathematics versus Dialogue ........... 101 Supporting the Axiom ........................................ 103 An Agambian Reading of the Parmenides ............ 114 Enthusiasm of the Rhapsode and Potentiality of the Scrivener ............................................... 121 vi Contents Part 2. figures of ContingenCy: susPending tHe PrinCiPle of suffiCient reason FOUR • AdventorBirth:TwoModelsoftheEvent .......................... 138 Heidegger and “the Wholly Other Song of Beyng” ....................................................... 139 Shimmering and Shining: The Phenomenality of the Event .................................................... 156 Resurrection or Second Coming: Paradigmatic Pauline Events and the Question of Faith ........ 169 FIVE • AbsoluteBeginningorAbsoluteContingency ..................... 185 Absolute Beginning in Romano’s Phenomenology of the Event .................................................... 186 Absolute Contingency in Meillassoux’s Speculative Thought ......................................................... 204 The Contingency of the Event ............................ 222 SIX • WhatCanNoMoreBeThanNotBe .................................. 225 Remainder of Plurality, Remainder of the Event 225 Absolution, Event, and Abandonment ................ 231 Contingency and Pure Potentiality: The Case of Agamben ........................................................ 240 SEVEN • TheEthosofContingency ............................................ 262 Deductive Fidelity and the Affirmation of Thought 263 Nancy’s Ellipsis: The Empty Preference for Being 271 Epochē as Comportment ...................................... 275 Instead of an Epilogue: Another Parmenides, Another Ending .............................................. 280 Notes ................................................................................... 289 Bibliography ........................................................................ 318 Index ................................................................................... 331 ...